"This tutorial will take you through the steps of making 3D ggplots.
“You can install”rayshader" with functions install.packages() and load it with library. I also downloaded some other packages to show off some graphs "
“Rayshaders is basically 3D ggplots.This helps give the data youre analyzing a better visual representation of what your findings show. If you know how to use ggplot2 then you know how to use rayshaders which makes it that much more useful.”
“There are a couple differnt functions you can use in”RAYSHADER" but I’m gonna EXPLAIN one. The “plot_gg” function which is the most imprtant function. This function is what turns a normal ggplot function into a 3d model. When this function is called you can see a normal ggplot graph, untill you hover and grab with your mouse and you can view the graph from any angle. "
nc = st_read(system.file("shape/nc.shp", package="sf"), quiet = TRUE)
gg_nc = ggplot(nc) +
geom_sf(aes(fill = AREA)) +
scale_fill_viridis("Area") +
ggtitle("Area of counties in North Carolina") +
theme_bw()
plot_gg(gg_nc, multicore = TRUE, width = 6 ,height=2.7, fov = 70)
render_depth(focallength=100,focus=0.72)## Error in x[nrow(x):1, ]: subscript out of bounds“Overall the 3d ggplot maker rayshader is very cool to play with and make graphs. I say if you like ggplot2 already then you should definitely look into this package. I think the biggest weakness and next update they should do is when you move the graph, the numbers should follow. When you put the graph flat and your looking at it from the side , its hard to point out what youre looking at. Overall great package to look into”
https://www.tylermw.com/3d-ggplots-with-rayshader/
This is the creators page and showed us how to use the rayshader. He goes into detail what he wanted to do with this type of project and package.